Long chapter today. Hoop you like.
Tony slept. But he couldn't breathe 2 hours later. He woke up and his arc reactor was glowing about as much as a dying flashlight. He tried to yell, but he couldn't get enough breathe to speak. It came out as a hiss.
He tried to lift an arm. It was dead. Beeping around him caused Tony to panic. He was dying. He saw black spots and he felt himself flying away.
But then he saw someone come in. He couldn't hear, but his heartbeat echoed in his head. The girl. The doner, she was screaming something, her lips forming soundless words. Every move Tony made echoed in his head. His eye lids worked in slow motion, his vision fazed in and out of focus. He opened his mouth to breath and a mask was pumping oxygen into his lungs. He was strapped down, and nurses and doctors started to asses his conditions and work on him. They changed tubes and Tony saw a doctor lean down to look at his arc reactor.
The doctor told a nurse something, and she ran out of the room. Tony couldn't see much over the mask, but he knew they were messing with the arc reactor. About fifteen minutes later the nurse who had ran off cam back, but with Pepper. Pepper wasn't happy to see Tony, she glared down at him as the nurse and doctor tried to talk.
Finally she sighed and pulled something out of her purse, a manual. Tony had given her one, just in case.
She handed it to the nurse who poured into it, reading every word. She handed it to the doctor and was talking to him. Tony's breathing was blocked and he could tell the reactor was part of the problem. He wanted to tell them so, but words couldn't be spoken. He waited until the doctor took a scalpel and asked for a few things before he made a neat incision into Tony's torso. Tony had medication, sure, but cutting so close to a heart?
The incision wasn't deep, but enough for the doctor to insert a camera type instrument and view Tony's mechanized heart as well as the shards implanted in his chest.
Tony almost smile when he saw the Stark copyright logo in the metal, but his humor dropped when he saw a tangle of wires that had been snapped. His arteries hadn't gotten enough blood to stabilize them, which was because there wasn't enough oxygen to make blood, which was caused by either internal bleeding, or too many dying blood cells. As this went over in Tony's head, he head another set of beeps. The liver sensor was going ballistic. Someone rushed to his side and messed around with the tubes and things until that someone looked up and said, as Tony could make out, that his liver was failing.
Tony was dying. He knew it. He heaved a breath. The doctors stopped looking at each other and quickly went back to work on the wires, setting the mechanism straight, to Tony's humor, the troubleshooter guide in his manual.
Another set of people quickly worked on sterilizing Tony's abdomen for another emergency surgery. They had Tony almost half-naked. It was funny, because Pepper Potts and the orange haired doner were watching, in fear of course, but it was still funny for Tony.
The humor again died quickly as sharp pains caused him to flinched. The doctors looked up at him and he tried to reassure them that he was fine. They worked quickly, series of beeps fading in and out as Tony's hearing turned on and off. The heart surgeons were finishing, they move down to help the liver surgeons, who had cut Tony open an were now trying to fix the problem. Apparently his liver had turned to 65% scar tissue, and had to be replaced. Orange hair was willing, and so she was quickly prepped. She looked fearful, but clean, as she was placed on the table. Tony looked at her, her own oxygen mask making them look like a pair of aliens being dissected.
Tony gained enough strength to move his mouth.
A tear crept from his eye. Pepper watched with fear and hatred as Tony looked straight into her eyes.
"I love you." He mouthed.
"I love you too." She said, crying.
The doctors had exposed her abdomen and the area where her stomach and liver were. She cried. The scar on her face wrinkled as she winced from the IV injection.
Tony's heart crumbled and he didn't wanted her to be in pain. Why did she have to be in pain?!
Why?!
Tony was crying as he looked over at her. She gritted her teeth as she looked down at her stomach, seeing a scalpel ready and about to cut into her body.
But then a loud voice yelled,
"STOP!" And everything stopped. And in walked-
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